FOREIGN PRESS REVIEW (FPR)

Reports & Analysis

• 2006 Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL) Strategic Studies Institute
• Shared Vision and Structured Dialogue to Advance the Turkish-American Strategic Partnership (pdf version)
• U.S. National Security Strategy 2006 -- PDF
• Political Research Online (PROL) - The American Political Science Association paper archive / International Studies Association Archive
• Congressional Research Service reports
• Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project PDF version - 6.5 mb
• Quadrennial Defense Review U.S. Depertment of Defense

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• Stability Operations in Strategic Perspective: A Skeptical View Colin S. Gray - Parameters Summer 2006
• Almanak Türkiye: Güvenlik Sektörü ve Demokratik GözetimTESEV
• Russia: Back to the Future?Senate FRC Hearing
• Remarks by Ambassador Eric Edelman at the Washington Institute's Eighth Annual Turgut Ozal Lecture
• Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerinde “İkinci Bahar” mı, “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Şanlı Bahadır Koç - Stratejik Analiz - Haziran 2006
• The Changing Strategic Environment Rand Corporation
• U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy, 2nd Edition Strategic Studies Institute
• Eğitim ve Sürdürülebilir Büyüme; Türkiye Deneyimi, Riskler ve Fırsatlar Tüsiad
• What to Do in Iraq: A Roundtable Foreign Affairs Larry Diamond, James Dobbins, Chaim Kaufmann, Leslie Gelb
• The War over Israel’s Influence Foreign Policy July/August 2006
• The "Governance Gap" in Central Asia and the Caucasus Freedom House
• A Synergy for Black Sea Regional Cooperation: Guidelines for an EU Initiative CEPS: (June 2006)
• The Return of the State in the Middle East Shibley Telhami, The National Interest
• Iraqi Force Development in 2006 CSIS -Anthony H. Cordesman & William D. Sullivan
• Privatizing Foreign Policy Middle East Policy Vol. XIII, Number 2, Summer 2006.
• International Energy Outlook 2006 CSIS
• The Emerging Shia Crescent Symposium: Implications for U.S. Policy in the Middle East CFR (video)
• Stratfor Third Quarter Forecast: From the Middle East to Eurasia - Part 1 Stratfor
• Text of US Iraq Embassy Memo
• The “Soft War” for Europe’s East Russia and the West square off Policy Review Bruce P. Jackson
• When the Shiites Rise Foreign Affairs by Vali Nasr
• The U.S. Military's Manpower Crisis Foreign Affairs By Frederick W. Kagan
• Between Suicide Bombings and Burning Banlieues :The Multiple Crises of Europe’s Parallel Societies CEPS - Rob De Wijk, Samir Amghar and Amel Boubekeur and Alexei Malashenko - ESF Working Papers
• Iran's Nuclear Programme and Policy: A Report
• Pakistan-China Relations: Recent Developments Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
• Hot, Cold & Imperial New York Review of Books By Robert Skidelsky
• The Inaugural Christopher J. Makins Lecture Zbigniew Brzezinski - Atlantic Council of the United States -
• Big Chill The cold war never really ended The Nation , Stephen F. Cohen
• China, Asia and the World Economy: The Implications of an Emerging Asian Core and Periphery Institute of World Economics and Politics
• The Dark Side (Cheney vs. the CIA) PBS Frontline
• İran Sorununun Geleceği: Senaryolar, Bölgesel Etkiler ve Türkiye'ye Öneriler Tepav- Epri - Nihat Ali Özcan
• Missile Defense in Asia CSIS
• What does the Future Hold for Syria? MERIA
• Securing Baghdad: Understanding and Covering the Operation CSIS -Anthony H. Cordesman
• The Arab Gulf States in the Shadow of the Iranian Nuclear Challenge Stimson Center
• The Bilderberg Group BBC Radio 4 - Club Class radio series looking into secret organisations mp3
• Counterterrorism: The Changing Face of Terror Senate FRC Hearing
• The Shanghai Pact: The SCO and Implications for America in Eurasia Heritage Foundation
• Balkans Progress: Who Stands in the Way? United States Institute of Peace
• When the Wave Hits a Shoal: The Internal and External Dimensions of Russia's Turn Away from Democracy Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
• American coup d'etat? Military thinkers discuss the unthinkable Harper's
• The State of Space: Strategic Reconnaissance to Tactical Warfighting to Possible Weaponization Brookings Michael E. O'Hanlon
• Afghanistan and Its Neighbors: An Ever Dangerous Neighborhood USIP
• Civilian crisis management: the EU way EU-ISS
• Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Arms Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission
• Asia's Changing Military Balance CSIS
• The Management of Savagery, authored by an Al Qaeda insider, is a detailed look into the operational and strategic aspects of Al Qaeda's global jihad against the United States English translation
• Transcript: An Attack on Turkish Secularism?
• Failure and Longevity: The Dominant Political Order of the Middle East MERIA Failure and Longevity: The Dominant Political Order of the Middle East MERIA - Jonathan Spyer
• Violent jihad in the Netherlands AIVD 2006 (472 Kb)
• "The Intelligence Phenomenon in a New Democratic Milieu: Romania -- A Case Study" by Valentin Fernand Filip, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.
• Global Attitudes Toward U.S. Foreign Policy Brookings
• India, Pakistan and Kashmir: Stabilising a Cold Peace ICG
• Interagency Dialogue: The Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization Interview with Carlos Pascual, Joint Force Quarterly (Summer 2006)
• The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other Pew
• Palestinians, Israel and the Quartet: Pulling Back From the Brink International Crisis Group
• Building Federal Subunits by Way of Referenda: Special Challenges for Iraq Reidar Visser
• Information Sharing and Collaboration Business Plan Institute for Defense Analyses, June 2005
• 'Dirty Bomb' Attack: Assessing New York City's Level of Preparedness from a First Responder's Perspective by John Sudnik, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.
• The US Administration’s Advanced Energy Initiative: New Programmes and More Funding or Old Programmes and Less Funding - Thomas L. Brewer - CEPS Policy Briefs
• "No Mere Oversight: Congressional Oversight of Intelligence is Broken," June 13, 2006. Congressional oversight of intelligence is "dysfunctional," according to a new report from the liberal Center for American Progress.
• Iraq's Future: A Concept Paper MERIA Patrick Clawson
• Iran: Three Alternative Futures Kenneth M. Pollack
• US Nuclear Weapons in Europe A Review of Post-Cold War Policy, Force Levels, and War Planning Hans M. Kristensen, Natural Resources Defense Council, February 2005.
• 'Ortak Tutum Belgesi'
• International Institutional Reform and Global Governance Brookings
• PAN TURIANISM TAKES AIM AT AZERBAIJAN: A Geopolitical Agenda
• Beyond Enlargement Fatigue? The Dutch debate on Turkish accession European Stability Initiative
• Guidelines for an EU Initiative in the Black Sea Region CEPS
• Transcript: Exit from Iraq? Middle East Policy Council
• Oil Dependence and Economic Risk Senate DRC Hearing – Alan Greenspan -
• Dissecting Anti-isms The American Interest by Josef Joffe
• Global Development Finance Report 2006 World Bank
• Unrealists National Interest by Dimitri K. Simes
• Graham E. Fuller on Turkey and the Middle East Lecture Video -
• The National Interest| Summmer 2006
• Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions AEI-Brookings Book -
• Iran's Weapons of Mass Destruction CSIS by Anthony Cordesman
• Governance and the Military: Perspectives for Change in Turkey Centre for European Security Studies
• DETERRING THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY DEAD? Laurent Murawiec - [Hudson Institute]
• The New Global Challengers How 100 Top Companies from Rapidly Developing Economies Are Changing the Worl
• NATO's Growing Role in the Greater Middle East Brookings Paper by Philip H. Gordon
• The Global Technology Revolution 2020, In-Depth Analyses: Bio/Materials/Information Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and Social Implications Rand Corporation
• Council of Europe Report on CIA secret detentions
• Turkey in Europe:Changes and Challenges - Report from the Conference organized by the Joint Center's Turkey Initiative in cooperation with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Does Europe Have Something to Offer the World? Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
• Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq: "Fact, Fallacy, and an Overall Grade of "F" CSIS -Anthony H. Cordesman
• Facing Iran’s Challenge: Safeguarding Oil Exports from the Persian Gulf Simon Henderson
• How to Strengthen EU Foreign Policy Centre for European Reform
• Trail to Failure: History of the Constitutional Rejection and Implications for the Future - Richard E. Baldwin - CEPS Policy Briefs
• Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition from Turmoil to Normalcy CFR - Dr. Barnett R. Rubin
• Montenegro’s Referendum International Crisis Group
• War in Iraq The Atlantic Monthly | July/August 2006 The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about the conflict in Iraq
• Sustainment of Army Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Battlefield Logistics and Effects on Operations Rand Corporation
• Putin and Russia's Middle East Policy Middle East Review of International Affairs
• June 8, 2006, IAEA report (PDF)
• China's Charm: Implications of Chinese Soft Power Carnegie Endowment By Josh Kurlantzick
• "Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures," U.S. Army Field Manual FM 3-11.22, June 2003 (233 pages, 6 MB PDF).
• The State of U.S. Homeland Security Brookings
• An Assessment of the U.S. Military and Its Global Impact Heritage Foundation Event Video
• Untangling China's Quest for Oil through State-backed Financial Deals Brookings Peter C. Evans and Erica S. Downs, Policy Brief #154
• US-UK Defense Technology-Sharing Study CSIS
• Trafficking in Persons Report, 2006
• A plea for a more assertive EU Neighbourhood Policy
• Finance and the Fourth Dimension New Left Review, Robin Blackburn
• Homeland Security Department: FY2007 Appropriations Congressional Research Service
• UK Political Developments and Likely Impact on US Relations British American Security Information Council
• IMF's Finance & Development, a special issue on Asia
• The Implications of China's Rise for Asia and Europe Finnish Institute of International Affairs
• CSIS Trends in U.S. Government Professional Services
• From Soldier to Civilian: Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration in Afghanistan Danish Institute for International Studies
• "F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues" Congressional Research Service (pdf), updated June 2, 2006.
• Proposed Termination of Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F136 Alternate Engine
• What Determines Technological Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China Economic Growth Center
• U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation: A Strategy for Moving Forward Council on Foreign Relations
• Singapore 'Exceptionalism'? Authoritarian Rule and State Transformation Asia Research Centre
• The Effects of Trade Liberalisation on Agriculture in Smaller Developing Countries: Implications for the Doha Round
• One Size Fits All? Tailored Integration Policies for Migrants in the European Union European Policy Centre
• From Schengen to Prum German Institute for International and Security Affairs
• The Eastern Enlargement of the Monetary Union German Institute for International and Security Affairs
• 'The future of European universities: Renaissance or decay?' Center For European Reform
• The Washington Quarterly Summer 2006 - The Remaking of a Unipolar World Robert Jervis
• "Beyond 'Bridges,' 'Crossroads' and 'Buffer Zones': Defining a New International Role for Turkey" Lerna K. Yanik, Bilkent University
• "Turkey and the United States: From Geopolitics to Concentrated Strategy" Ian O. Lesser
• "The Anatomy of Turkish-Russian Relations" Suat Kiniklioglu
• "The Impact of the European Union on Democracy in Turkey and its Implications for the Region" Demet Yalcin
• Assisting People to Become Independent Learners in the Analysis of Intelligence" by Peter L. Pirolli, Palo Alto Research Center, Inc., Final Report to the Office of Naval Research, February 2006.
• "Curing Analytic Pathologies: Pathways to Improved Intelligence Analysis" by Jeffrey R. Cooper, Center for the Study of Intelligence, December 2005 (5 MB PDF).
• Unrest in Turkey's Kurdish Region Implications for Turkey and EU German Institute for International Politics and Security - By Heinz Kramer
• OECD Economic Outlook No. 79, May 2006
• Türk ve Kürt Ulusalcılıklarının Bugünkü Manzarası Dr. Abdulhamit KIRMIZI, Birikim 204, Nisan 2006
• Turkey on the Brink Philip Gordon and Omer Taspinar The Washington Quarterly
• TURKEY : EMBRACING EAST AND WEST Paul Wolfowitz - Brookings Sakip Sabanci Lecture
• IISS THE MILITARY BALANCE 2006
• The U.S. Interests and Role in Central Asia after K2 Washington Quarterly - Eugene Rumer
• Averting a New Great Game in Central Asia Richard Weitz
• The Death of Enlargement Gideon Rachman
• Iran’s Political/Nuclear Ambitions and U.S. Policy Options Senate FRC Hearing
• The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq, Publius (A Journal of Federalism) edited by Brendan O'Leary ...
• One World, One Well How Populations Can Grow on a Finite Water Supply Rand Review Spring 2006
• OPEC and the High Price of Oil Federal Trade Commission
• Uniting Against Terrorism: Recommendations for a Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy United Nations
• Massive Collection of Formerly Secret and Top Secret Transcripts of Henry Kissinger's Meetings with World Leaders Published On-Line National Security Archive
• Stabilizing Iraq: Options for Democracy, Security and Development Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
• The Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy and Nonproliferation Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
• Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the FY 2007 Intelligence Authorization Act, Senate Report 109-259, May 25.
• Police-Building in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Beyond: Successes, Failures, and Lessons Learned AEI Event
• Winning the "Long War" in Iraq: What the US Can and Cannot Do CSIS - -Anthony Cordesman
• Global U.S. Troop Deployment, 1950-2005 Heritage Foundation by Tim Kane
• Securing America's Energy Future Committee on Government Reform US House of Representatives
• Annual Report to Congress: Military Power of the People's Republic of China, 2006 U.S. Department of Defense
• Prospects for the U.S. Intelligence Community Brookings
• A Potential Influenza Pandemic: An Update on Possible Macroeconomic Effects and Policy Issues
• A New Agreement between the EU and Russia: Why, what and when? CEPS
• American Hegemony: A Dangerous Aspiration? Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
• Dual Dilemmas: U.S. Policy Options for the Israeli-Palestinian Predicament Brookings
• Sen. Russ Feingold on National Security CSIS
• The Storm over the Israel Lobby New York Review of Books By Michael Massing
• Report on the Progress of the Director of National Intelligence in Implementing the 'Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004
• "Nuclear Command and Control: Current Programs and Issues" Congressional Research Service
• Iraqi Civilian, Police, and Security Forces Casualty Estimates "Iraqi Civilian, Police, and Security Forces Casualty Estimates"
• Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 2004
• The full transcript of General Hayden's confirmation hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
• Government Access to Phone Calling Activity and Related Records: Legal Authorities Congressional Research Service
• US Military Options Against Emerging Nuclear Threats: The Challenges of a Denial Society International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Choosing among Bad Options The Pakistani "Loose Nukes" Conundrum By Thomas Donnelly AEI
• The Paramount Power: China and the Countries of South East Asia Lowy Institute
• The Israel Lobby: How Powerful is it Really? FPIF Stephen Zunes
• Living with Palestinian Democracy Carnegie - By Nathan Brown
• U.S. and International Responses to the Global Spread of Avian Flu: Issues for Congress Congressional Research Service
• U.S. Policy Regarding the International Criminal Court" Congressional Research Service
• Russia Congressional Research Service
• Intelligence Reform at the Department of Energy: Policy Issues and Organizational Alternatives Congressional Research Service
• DOE Classification Guide for Intelligence Information
• "DoD Intelligence Interrogations, Detainee Debriefings, and Tactical Questioning" (pdf), DoD Directive 3115.09, Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence), 3 November 2005, change 1, 10 May 2006.
• Syria and Iran: An Enduring Axis Mideast Monitor Abbas Willian Samii
• Bulgaria and Romania’s Accession to the EU: Postponement, Safeguards and the Rule of Law CEPS
• Afghanistan's New Legislature: Making Democracy Work International Crisis Group
• Managing the Challenges of WTO Participation World Trade Organisation
• Avoiding the Hollow Force: Modernizing for the Future Heritage Foundation by James Jay Carafano
• 7/7 London Bombings Official account in full / MPs' report in full
• The U.S.-Indian Strategic Partnership AEI Video
• China: A Troubled Dragon FPIF
• The Challenge for Hamas: Establishing Transparency and Accountability Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces
• Countering Aggressive Rising Powers A Clash of Strategic Cultures Orbis - By Thomas Donnely
• CSIS How BTC Fits into the World Presentation: Slides 1-10 Slides 11-20
• Iranian President’s Letter to President Bush
• EU2010: A PROGRAMME FOR REFORM CER manifesto Center for European Reform
• The Uncertain Cost of the Iraq War -Anthony Cordesman
• Iraq and the Problem of Militias -Anthony H. Cordesman
• "Intelligence Analysis in Theater Joint Intelligence Centers: An Experiment in Applying Structured Methods" by MSgt Robert D. Folker, Jr. (USAF), Joint Military Intelligence College, January 2000.
• Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development World Bank's assistance for natural disasters
• Iraq as a Failed State: From Failed State to Civil War: The Lebanization of Iraq 2003-2006 Fund for Peace Report #5 - full version (PDF, 835k)
• Atlantic Reform: A Euro-Atlantic and a Danish Perspective Danish Institute for International Studies
• The Evolving U.S. - Japan Alliance: QDR and a New Joint Strategy Heritage Foundation
• Strategic Redeployment 2.0 The Center for American Progress
• Private seven-page memo on Iraq retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey
• Center for European Integration Studies The Euro-Mediterranean Space as an Imagined (Geo-)political, Economic and Cultural Entity
• Intelligence Issues for Congress Congressional Research Service
• Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses Congressional Research Service
• Indonesia: Domestic Politics, Strategic Dynamics, and American Interests Congressional Research Service
• Israel: U.S. Foreign Assistance Congressional Research Service
• India-U.S. Relations Congressional Research Service
• Back to the Future? The Lessons of Counterinsurgency for Contemporary Peace Operations Norman Patterson School of International Affairs
• The Way Forward in Iraq: Avoiding Partition, Preserving Unity, Protecting America’s Interests Joe Biden
• U.S. Policies in Central Asia: Balancing Priorities (Part II) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• U.S. Energy Secretary and Saudi Oil Minister Discuss High Oil Prices at CSIS Event
• And Yet it Moves: The European Constitutional Debate One Year On Brookings Institution
• Military Satellites 2006: International Satellite Innovation and Cooperation Center for Defense Information
• US Special Operations Command: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st ... United States Army
• Dividing Iraq: Think Long and Hard First Anthony H. Cordesman
• Turkey: Labor Market Study World Bank
• The IAEA report on the Iranian nuclear program
• New Activities at the Esfahan and Natanz Nuclear Sites in Iran Institute for Science and International Security
• Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) April 2006 report
• Devising A New Strategy For Resolving The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict --- Brookings
• Israel crosses the threshold Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists By Avner Cohen and William Burr | May/June 2006
• The Five Best Resource Decisions in National Security CSIS -Anthony H. Cordesman
• U.S. Competitiveness in the 21st Century Brookings Institution
• Nuclear Weapons: Views on Proposals to Transform the Nuclear Weapons Complex US Government Accountability Office
• World Trade Organization: Limited Progress at Hong Kong Ministerial Clouds Prospects for Doha Agreement US Government Accountability Office
• China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues Congressional Research Service
• State Department’s Country Reports on Terrorism
• Intelligence for a New Era in American Foreign Policy Center for the Study of Intelligence
• Enlargement two years on: Economic success or political failure? by Katinka Barysch Center for European Reform
• EU Enlargement: Bulgaria and Rumania - Migration Implications for the UK Institute for Public Policy Research
• Human Trafficking in the Russian Federation - Institute of Urban Economics
• Commercial Security in Humanitarian and Post-Conflict Settings: An Exploratory Study International Peace Academy
• The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11 Congressional Research Service
• U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress
• Sudan: Humanitarian Crisis, Peace Talks, Terrorism, and U.S. Policy"
• Nonproliferation and Threat Reduction Assistance: U.S. Programs in the Former Soviet Union
• Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
• China-Southeast Asia Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications for the United States
• Arab League Boycott of Israel
• Preventative War and its Alternatives: The Lessons of History Strategic Studies Institute
• Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting al-Qua'ida's Organizational Vulnerabilities Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
• Moving Beyond the Stalemate: Addressing the Nuclear Challenge by Supranational Means Netherlands Institute of International Relations
• Russia's Military Strategy: Preparing for the Wrong War? Netherlands Institute of nternational Relations
• Is More Better? Evaluating External-Led State Building After 1989 Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
• CSIS Iraq's Evolving Insurgency and the Risk of Civil War - Anthony H. Cordesman, with the assistance of Eric M. Brewer and Sara Bjerg Moller
• Global Monitoring Report 2006 International Monetary Fund
• A Framework for Strengthening US Intelligence Yale Journal of International Affairs BY LOCH. K. JOHNSON
• Iraqi Economic Reconstruction and Development CSIS -Onur Ozlu
• Turkey’s EU Accession: The Long Road from Ankara to Brussels Yale Journal of International Affairs – By Burak Akçapar and Denis Chaibi
• International Journal of Kurdish Studies
• Democracy, Prudence, Intervention Jack Goldsmith (Harvard):
• UNODC report on global trends in human trafficking
• The Basque Conflict: New Ideas and Prospects for Peace USIP
• A Shia Crescent: What Fallout for the US? MEPC
• Centralism in Iraq: Anachronism from the British Mandate or a Viable Alternative for the Future? Reidar Visser
• Exiting Iraq: Competing Strategies Middle East Policy Journal Thomas R. Mattair
• State Department Central Foreign Policy Files, 1973-1974
• The End of Israel's Dream — or Nightmare? Foreign Affairs by Tom Segev
• Political Oppositions in the Arab World USIP Muslim World Initiative Project
• Foreign Policy of the Grand Coalition in Germany – Base Line and First Assessment at the beginning of Merkel’s term
• World Economic Outlook IMF
• Replace Turkey as a Strategic Partner? by Jonathan Eric Lewis Middle East Quarterly* Spring 2006
• EU The U.S. - Turkish Alliance At The Iranian Junction? CSIS -
• War and Escalation in South Asia Rand Corporation
• Creating an L20 Summit Forum Brookings Institution document in PDF (99KB) Policy Brief by Johannes F. Linn and Colin I. Bradford, Jr. (April 2006)
• At What Cost Israel-China Ties? Middle East Forum by P. R. Kumaraswamy
• TURKISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS FROM 1945 TO 2004. Alternatives - Omer G. Isyar
• Divide and heal The Prospect Gareth Stansfield
• 'Understanding Iran' People, Politics and Power Foreign Policy Center (pdf)
• American Strategic, Tactical, and Other Mistakes in Iraq: A Litany of Errors CSIS - -Anthony Cordesman
• Iran - Sliding to War? Oxford Research Group (pdf). Paul Rogers
• New European Approaches to Counter Terrorism International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Death Penalty: 20,000 on death row across the world Amnesty International
• Governing Palestine: Internal Struggle, External Coercion International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Sorting Out the Spaghetti: International trading system Lowy Institute
• Securing Health: Lessons from Nation-Building Missions Rand Corporation
• Russia's Oil: Natural Abundance and Political Shortages American Enterprise Institute
• Russia's Iran Policy German Institute for International and Security Affairs
• Temporal Dominance: Military Transformation and the Time Dimension of Strategy Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies
• China's Secret Weapon? Science Policy and Global Power Foreign Policy Centre
• Information Sharing: The Federal Government Needs to Establish Policies and Processes for Sharing Terrorism-Related and Sensitive but Unclassified Information ," March 2006 (1.8 MB PDF).
• Homeland Operations Air Force Doctrine Document AFDD 2-10, March 21, 2006
• Economic Nationalism on the Rise German Institute for International and Security Affairs
• "Global Imbalances: The New Economy, the Dark Matter, the Savvy Investor, and the Standard Analysis," Barry Eichengreen, Journal of Policy Modeling
• Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses Congressional Research Service
• Promoting Accountability in Multi-Level Governance: A Network Approach EUROGOV
• Iranian Nuclear Weapons? The Options if Diplomacy Fails CSIS -Anthony H. Cordesman and Khalid R. Al-Rodhan
• Analytic Culture in the US Intelligence Community An Ethnographic Study Rob Johnston (7.8 mb) – Center for Studies of Intelligence (CIA)
• Iranian Nuclear Weapons? The Uncertain Nature of Iran's Nuclear Programs CSIS -Anthony H. Cordesman and Khalid R. Al-Rodhan
• Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies – Strategic Assessments April 2006
• Irregular Enemies Strategic Studies Institute by Dr. Colin S. Gray
• The Point of No Return: Iran's Path to Democracy Washington Institute - Mohsen Sazegara
• Growing old the hard way: china, russia, india Living longer but poorer Policy Review Nicholas Eberstadt
• The "Mystery" of the Soviet Collapse Journal of Democracy,
• Energy Security, National Security, and Natural Gas AEI By Gary J. Schmitt
• U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb National Security Archive -
• The Nexus betwen Immigration, Integration and Citizenship in the EU Centre for European Policy Studies
• The Prospect of Deep Free Trade between the European Union and Ukraine Centre for European Policy Studies
• President Hu's trip to the United States CSIS
• The European Neighbourhood Policy: Foreign Policy at the EU's Periphery Center for European Integration Studies
• Curing Analytic Pathologies: Pathways to Improved Intelligence Analysis (pdf)- Dr. Jeffrey Cooper
• Global Financial Stability Report—Market Developments and Issues IMF
• Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors World Bank
• Current Trends in India-U.S. Relations: Hopes for a Secure Future Center for Contemporary Conflict
• Pakistan's Kashmir Policy After the Bush Visit to South Asia Center for Contemporary Conflict
• Energy's Next Era (pdf) CERA By Daniel Yergin
• The Reality and Myth of Turkey as a new Global Energy Hub CSIS - Necdet Pamir (audio)
• Central Asia: What Role for the European Union? International Crisis Group
• THE IRAN PLANS: Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb? New Yorker by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
• Iraq - Stability Assessment The Full Report (pdf) (5.3mb)
• Training Indigenous Forces in Counterinsurgency: A Tale of Two Insurgencies Strategic Studies Institute
• THE FUTURE OF DECADENT EUROPE Judt, Tony - Brookings Institution - U.S.- EUROPE Analysis Series
• Debunking the Newest – and Oldest – Jewish Conspiracy: A Reply to the Mearsheimer-Walt “Working Paper” Alan Dershowitz Harvard Law School
• Turks, Armenians, and the "G-Word" World Policy Journal Belinda Cooper and Taner Akcam
• Reexamining the Distinction Between Open Information and Secrets Studies in Intelligencre.
• World Health Report 2006 World Health Organization
• Petro-Confidence: Russia’s Growing Foreign Policy Assertiveness and America’s Response Nixon Center
• The UK Defence Industrial Strategy and Alternative Approaches British American Security Information Council
• The House Intelligence Committee report on the FY 2007 Intelligence Authorization Act.
• Islamist Extremism in Europe US Senate Hearing
• Currents and Crosscurrents of Radical Islamism CSIS
• Meeting the Challenge of a Fragmented Iraq: A Saudi Perspective Nawaf Obaid
• Multilateral Constraints on the Use of Force: A Reassessment Strategic Studies Institute
• Time for a US/Iran Patch Up Carnegie Endowment for International Peace James E. Doyle and Sara Kutchesfahani1
• Islamist Movements and the Democratic Process in the Arab World : Exploring Gray Zones... Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• China's Emergence: Implications for Australia
• Debunking the Newest – and Oldest – Jewish Conspiracy: A Reply to the Mearsheimer-Walt “Working Paper” Alan Dershowitz Harvard Law School
• 'Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2005 - 2006' State Department report
• Serbia 2006: The Year of Denouement? International Instiitute for Middle East and Balkan Studies
• Marching Johnny Home: Evacuating the American Forces from Iraq Jaffe Center - Ephraim Kam
• Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia CFR - Rachel Bronson
• Below the radar: Secret flights to torture and ‘disappearance’ Amnesty International Report
• Combatting Nuclear Smuggling US Government Accountability Office
• Joint Publication 3-13, "Information Operations," dated February 13, 2006 (1.3 MB PDF).
• Joint Publication 6-0, "Joint Communications System," 20 March 2006 (3 MB PDF).
• U.S. Army Field Manual Interim FMI 5-0.1, "The Operations Process," March 31, 2006 (2.7 MB PDF).
• Arzın Merkezine Seyahat: ABD Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi Avrasya Dosyası
• Gurur ve Önyargı: ABD İran Gerginliği ve Türkiye - Stratejik Analiz Nisan 2006
• The Threat of Global Poverty Susan E. Rice. The National Interest (Spring 2006)
• Turkish Civil-Military Relations and the EU: Preparation for Continuing Convergence Turkish Civil-Military Relations and the EU: Preparation for Continuing Convergence – November 2005 Turkish
• Islam's Imperial Dreams Commentary - by Efraim Karsh
• What Is Democracy? Liberal Institutions and Stability in Changing Societies Orbis - by William Anthony Hay
• Markets, Networks and Governments: Issues in the Debate on Global Governance Kemal Dervis
• China and the changing dynamics of the world oil market
• Thinking Beyond OPEC The Jourmal of International Security Affairs Frederick Cedoz
• Turkey: Education Sector Study World Bank - March 2006
• Who Are Iraq's New Leaders? What Do They Want? US Institute of Peace
• Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index CFR
• Public Agenda Chairman Dan Yankelovich analyzes the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index. May/June Foreign Affairs
• Real Security: Protecting America & Restoring Our Leadership in the World Democrat Party -
• The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press Foreign Affairs -
• The future of the European economy Report on the CER conference
• Planning For and Applying Military Force: An Examination of Terms Strategic Studies Institute - Lieutenant General (USMC Ret) Paul K Van Riper
• The Saudi Labyrinth: Evaluating the Current Political Opening By Amr Hamzawy - Carnegie Endowment -
• Israel's Lessons for Fighting Terrorists and their Implications for the United States Brookings Institution
• Preventing Catastrophic Nuclear Terrorism Charles D. Ferguson II - Council on Foreign Relations
• Wolfish Wilsonians and the Existential Dilemmas of the Liberal Internationalists. Anatol Lieven - Orbis -
• 'Boffins' and 'Buffoons': Different Strains of Thought in Russia's Strategic Thinking Chatham House
• The Battle for Azerbaijan Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• EU-US Risk Policy in the European Neighbourhood: The Cases of Moldova and Georgia Center for Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy Studies
• Energy in a Changing World Netherlands Institute of International Relations
• Pakistan's Foreign Policy Under Musharraf: Between a Rock and a Hard Place Chatham House
• Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues Congressional Research Service
• Tactical Aircraft Modernization: Issues for Congress Congressional Research Service
• Army Unmanned Aircraft System Operations Field Manual Interim FMI 3-04.155, dated 4 April 2006 (183 pages in a large 9 MB PDF file).
• Observing or Participating in Regime Change: Kyrgyz Perspective on the Role of International Election Observation Missions in 2005 Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Results That Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform (PDF; 1.3 MB)
• Operation Iraqi Freedom: Three Year Anniversary -- Progress Fact Sheet U.S. Department of Defense (Word; 216 KB)
• From neighbourhood to integration policy - Are there concrete alternatives to enlargement? CEPS Analysis:
• National Military Strategy for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction US Defense Department
• Atlantic Council of the United States March 2006 Transatlantic Transformation: Building a NATO-EU Security Architecture
• Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam's Senior Leadership U.S. Joint Forces Command, Center for Operational Analysis (PDF: 7.2 MB)
• Foreign Consequence Management Department of Defense Instruction
• Jordan: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues Congressional Research Service
• Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq: Effects and Countermeasures Congressional Research Service
• National Emergency Powers Congressional Research Service
• Unclassified documents and media captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom Foreign Military Studies Office Joint Reserve Intelligence Center
• The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt March 2006
• Turkey and Russia: Axis of the Excluded? Fiona Hill and Omer Taspinar; Survival (Spring 2006)
• It’s a long way to Copenhagen? Turkey’s Membership of and Convergence with the European Union Willem H. Buiter - CEPS Policy Briefs
• Russia's Iran Policy: Global and Regional Objectives, Political and Economic Interests German Institute for International and Security Affairs
• The Iraq War and Lessons for Counterinsurgency CSIS
• The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics,Law, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO
• The Osirak Fallacy by Richard K. Betts - National Interest - Spring 2006
• Deindustrialisation and the Fear of Relocations in (the) Industry - CEPII
• A Complex Reality: The Strategic Behaviour of Multinational Oil Corporations and the New Wars in Sudan Danish Institute of International Studies
• China's Emergence and the Reorganisation of Trade Flows in Asia CEPII
• Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Future Strategic Strike Skills
• Conflict Resolution in the South Caucasus: The EU’s Role International Crisis Group -
• The Need to Block a Nuclear Iran Ephraim Inbar MERIA
• Patterns of Discontent: Will History Repeat In Iran? Patrick Clawson and Michael Rubin - MERIA
• US v. Iran [pdf] Sanctions Case Study IIE
• What can the G-8 accomplish under Russia's chairmanship? by Anders Åslund
• Climate Science 2005: Major New Discoveries World Resources Institute
• To Save Darfur International Crisis Report
• The Baltics: from nation states to member states ISS - by Kestutis Paulauskas
• Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Transformation and Implications for the Department of Defense Rand Corporation
• PARAMETERS - US Army War College Quarterly Spring 2006, Vol. XXXVI, No. 1
• GAO Tactical Aircraft: Recapitalization Goals Are Not Supported by F-22A and JSF Business Cases, GAO - by Michael J. Sullivan
• Full Brammertz report to the UN: Third report of the IIIC established pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1595, 1636 and 1644 Part One -- Part Two
• Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses Congressional Research Service
• Theory for the 21st Century What is the true meaning of strategy? Strategic Studies Institute Strategic by Dr. Harry R Yarger
• Sistani, the United States and Politics in Iraq: From Quietism to Machiavellianism? Reidar Visser (NUPI Paper , Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
• Post-Palestinian Election Challenges in the Middle East Senate FRC Hearing
• The Evolving India-U.S. Strategic Relationship PDA
• Insurgent Iraq: Links to full-text online articles and reports about the Iraqi insurgency PDA
• Pakistan: Political Impact of the Earthquake International Crisis Group
• Free-flowing rivers – Economic luxury or ecological necessity? WWF
• Democratic Consolidation in Georgia After the "Rose Revolution"? The state of democratization in Georgia Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
• Fatah and Hamas: The New Palestinian Factional Reality Congressional Research Service
• Saddam's Delusions: The View from the Inside Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006 - By Kevin Woods, James Lacey, and Williamson Murray
• Energy is the Albatross of U.S. National Security Brookings – Richard Lugar -
• Winners and Losers: Impact of the Doha Round on Developing Countries Carnegie Endowment By Sandra Polaski
• Sources and Methods of Foreign Nationals Engaged in Economic and Military Espionage Hearing of a House Judiciary Subcommittee
• Database Tracks All U.S. Federally Funded Research and Development Rand Corporation
• National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM)
• Diasporas and Conflict Resolution: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? Danish Institute for International Studies
• A Hamas Government: Isolate or Engage? USIPeace Briefing
• Arab Cultural Awareness 58 Factsheets DCSINT Handbook No. 2, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, January 2006
• Islamic Movements and the Democratic Process in the Arab World: Exploring the Gray Zones By Nathan Brown - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• France and its Muslims: Riots, Jihadism and Depoliticisation International Crisis Group
• Japan-China Relations: Four Fallacies Masquerading as Common Sense MIT Center for International Studies (PDF; 575 KB)
• The Cyprus Stalemate: What Next? -- International Crisis Group Turkish Greek
• US State Department release annual Human Rights report
• Turkey: To Combat Torture, Monitoring Police Stations Is Key Human Rights Watch - Turkish
• Why does Europe need Turkey? Turkey is the Mother of Europe Radnor Geopolitical Report by Klaus J. Stöhlker
• “Comments and Observations on the Topic of U.S. Energy Independence” CSIS
• “Is a transatlantic defence industry increasingly on the cards?” SDA
• Investing in the United Nations: For a Stronger Organisation Worldwide United Nations A 43-page report by the Secretary-General for reforming the United Nations
• World Bank Turkey: Country Economic Memorandum 2006 Promoting Sustained Growth and Convergence with the European Union
• CER EU2010: A programme for reform Center for European Reform
• Russia's Wrong Direction : What the United States Can and Should Do Council on Foreign Relations
• Iran's Nuclear Program: Recent Developments Congressional Research Service
• U.S. Nuclear Cooperation with India: Issues for Congress Congressional Research Service
• India's Nuclear Separation Plan: Issues and Views Congressional Research Service
• The Backlash Against Democracy Promotion Foreign Affairs T By Thomas Carothers
• The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy Foreign Affairs - by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press
• Putin's Foreign Policy Toward Syria Middle East Review of International Affairs
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• Success Matters: Casualty Sensitivity and the War in Iraq Chris Gelpi, Peter Feaver, and Jason Reifler Winter 2005/2006 - International Security
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• Council of Europe report examines protection of minorities in Kosovo
• Russian Energy Policy: Moscow's Newfound Clout Heritage Foundation Event
• The Benefits of Price Stability Remarks by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
• Syria and Political Change U.S. Institute of Peace
• The Asian Challenge American Interest - Kishore Mahbubani
• The Renewable Energy Toolkit World Bank
• China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets Congressional Research Service
• Defense Transformation: Background and Oversight Issues for Congress Congressional Research Service
• International Narcotics Control Strategy Report US State Department
• The Iraqi Insurgency and the Risk of CivilWar: Who Are the Players? CSIS - Anthony H. Cordesman
• Understanding Iran Foreign Policy Center
• Iran's Media Battleground Foreign Policy Center
• The EU needs a strong US economy, not reform Chatham House
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• Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge Carnegie Endowment - Thomas Carothers'
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• The impact of free movement of workers from Central and Eastern Europe on the UK labour market DWP
• Alleged secret detentions in Council of Europe member states
• Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National Intelligence for the Senate Armed Services Committee
• Uneven Patterns of Governance: How Developing Countries Are Represented in the IMF Ngaire Woods and Domenico Lombardi, Review of International Political Economy (February 2006)
• Is Future Conflict with China Avoidable? Independent Institute
• The Next Iraqi War? Sectarianism and Civil Conflict International Crisis Group -
• Why Georgia matters EU-ISS - Chaillot Paper nº 86 — February 2006 by Dov Lynch
• The Roots of Democracy Policy Review - By Carles Boix
• Rethinking The Interagency System Part 1 Part 2
• Transatlantic Security: The Importance of NATO Today Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs
• Reform of the International Monetary Fund Bank of England - Speech by Mervyn King
• How Should the U.S. Army Prepare Its Future Leaders? Rand Corporation -
• Washington Quarterly Spring 2006
• Recognizing and Understanding Revolutionary Change in Warfare: The Sovereignty of Context Strategic Studies Institute by Dr. Colin S. Gray
• "U.S. Nuclear Weapons: Changes in Policy and Force Structure," Congressional Research Service
• The World Economy in 2006: The View from 2005 Lowy Institute for International Policy
• Je T'Aime, Moi Non Plus: Bilateral Opinion and International Trade CEPII
• Education in China: Lessons for U.S. Educators Asia Society
• Iran: Is There a Way Out of the Nuclear Impasse? International Crisis Group
• Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy Council of Foreign Relations(excerpts from the book) Benn Steil and Robert E. Litan, February, 2006
• Iranian Nuclear Weapons? The Threat from Iran's WMD and Missile Programs CSIS - Cordesman and Khalid Al-Rodhan
• India’s Development Priorities: Issues and Challenges along the Path to 2015 Centre for Policy Studies, Rohan Mukherjee, March 2006
• Thinking longer, working harder: how long-dated bonds can help Europe's ageing population Chatham House, Paola Subacchi and Vanessa Rossi, February 2006
• The End of Dollar Hegemony Hon. Ron Paul of Texas Before the U.S. House of Representatives, Feb 15, 2006
• Declassification in Reverse: The Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program
• The Lisbon Agenda: Studies on Productivity, Services and Technologies Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, January 2006
• A Strategic Model of European Gas Supply (GASMOD) DIW Berlin, Franziska Holz, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert, February 2006
• Special Report: Do We Face an Oil Shortage? Commerzbank, Mélanie Fischinger, Barbara Lambrecht, February 2006
• U.S. government's January 30 response (pdf) to a motion to dismiss (pdf) filed by the AIPAC defendants.
• China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy Congressional Research Service
• China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues Congressional Research Service
• China's Economic Conditions Congressional Research Service
• China's Trade with the United States and the World Congressional Research Service
• Myths and Realities of American Political Geography Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
• DHS Intelligence Enterprise Strategic Plan January 2006 (3.3 MB PDF file).
• Intelligence Integration and Management DHS Management Directive 8110, January 30, 2006.
• Kosovo: The Challenge of Transition International Crisis Group -
• Friends again ? EU-US relations after the crisis EU-ISS- Edited by Marcin Zaborowski
• Combating Al Qaeda and the Militant Islamic Threat Rand CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY - By Bruce Hoffman
• Strategic Implications of the EU Crisis - Charles Grant, Jeffrey Gedmin and Timofei V. Bordachev - ESF Working Papers
• Global macroeconomic consequences of pandemic influenza Lowy Institute
• Situation of detainees at Guantánamo Bay OHCHR '
• A Switch in Time: A New Strategy for America in Iraq Brookings Institution - By Kenneth Pollack View Full Paper (PDF—919kb).
• Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic Ambitions: Building an Effective Policy Coordination ProcessThe Atlantic Council of the United States
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• In Their Own Words: Reading the Iraqi Insurgency International Crisis Group -
• Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting Al-Qa'ida's Organizational Vulnerabilities West Point's Combatting Terrorism Center - complete .pdf file list
• Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, Testimony of Chairman Ben S. Bernanke: Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress
• Council of Europe publish report on human rights situation in France
• Information Security DOE Manual 470.4-4, approved August 26, 2005 (2 MB PDF file).
• Strengthening Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: The UN's Role Brookings Institution
• Annual Energy Outlook 2006 with Projections to 2030 Energy Information Administration
• INVESTMENT IN MIDDLE EAST OIL: WHO NEEDS WHOM? Chatham House - Valérie Marcel
• STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY: A PROJECT SOLARIUM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY A Paper for the Princeton Project on National Security Working Group on Threat Assessment Michèle A. Flournoy and Shawn W. Brimley
• The impact of ageing on public expenditure: projections for the EU25 Member States on pensions, health care, long-term care, education and unemployment transfers (2004-2050) European Commission
• Iraqi Force Development: A Current Status Report July 2005-February 2006 CSIS
• The United States, Germany and Europe: Building a Global Agenda German Council on Foreign Relations
• Changing States: A Progressive Agenda for Political Reform for the Middle East Institute for Public Policy Research
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• The Agenda for IMF Reform (ch. 1 in the book: A Strategy for IMF Reform) Institute for International Economics, Edwin M. Truman, February, 2006
• Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants German Institute for Economic Research
• In the Aftermath of the Palestinian Parliamentary Elections: How to Deal with Hamas? German Institute for International Politics and Security
• Iran Before the Security Council? German Perspectives and Goals German Institute for International Politics and Security
• Pakistan: The Myth of an Islamist Peril Carnegie Endowment
• Growth Isn't Working New Economics Foundation
• The Iranian Moment - The Conservative Resurgence in Iran Frédéric Tellier - Washington Institute - PDF (432 KB)
• What's Wrong with the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review AEI - By Frederick Kagan
• 2006 Economic Report of the President
• Going for Growth 2006 OECD
• The Lion in Winter: Bashar Assad's Self-Destruction Mideast Monitor - by Gary C. Gambill
• The Prospects for Post-Conflict Afghanistan: A Call of the Sirens to the Country's Troubled Past Center for Contemporary Conflict
• Iran: Consequences of a War by Professor Paul Rogers.Oxford Research Group
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• International Assistance to Countries Emerging From Conflict International Peace Academy
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• Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq By Paul R. Pillar - Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006
• Human Rights, Civil Society, and Democratic Governance in Russia: Current Situation and Prospects for the Future Carnegie Endowment - Kuchins -
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• The European Constitution and its Ratification Crisis Center for European Integration Studies
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• Of power and providence The old U.S. and the new EU Policy Review David C. Hendrickson
• Getting India Right: Mutual interests and democratic affinity Policy Review - Parag Khanna and C. Raja Mohan
• Dying Too Young in the Russian Federation World Bank
• Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries: 11 Years Later NBER, Sergio Godoy, Joseph Stiglitz, January 2006
• Promoting Democracy Through Civil Society: How to Step Up the EU's Policy towards the Eastern Neighbourhood Centre for European Policy Studies
• Rebuilding Iraq: Stabilization, Reconstruction, and Financing Challenges GAO
• The Lessons of International Cooperation in Counterterrorism Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958 By: David Galula - Rand Corporation - 1958
• Senate Hearing Iraq Stabilization & Reconstruction
• National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism U.S Department of Defense
• GEO Year Book 2006 United Nations Environment Programme
• U.S. Interests in Central Asia - Policy Priorities and Military Roles Rand Corporation By: Olga Oliker, David A. Shlapak
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• Budget of the United States Government Fiscal Year 2007
• Challenges to China’s Internal Security Strategy Rand Corporation - Murray Scot Tanner
• The role of Islamic charities in global terrorism Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
• Guantánamo: Lives torn apart – The impact of indefinite detention on detainees and their families Amnesty International
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• Avoiding the Hollow Force: Is the Military Stretched too Thin? Heritage Event Video
• U.S. - U.K. Relations at the Start of the 21st Century Heritage Event Video
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• International Security Online - Gateways to Full-text Documents, Articles, and Books
• Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National Intelligence
• ANALYZING THE STATE OF THE UNION Brookings Institution
• Iraq's Evolving Insurgency: The Nature of Attacks and Patterns and Cycles in the Conflict CSIS
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• World Economic Situation and Prospects 2006 United Nations
• What Does China's Economy Mean for U.S. Strategy? AEI
• Global Corruption Report 2006 Transparency International
• Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force Congressional Research Service
• The Macroeconomic Conditions of EU-Inspired Employment Policies Institute of Economics
• Religious Contributions to Peacemaking: When Religion Brings Peace, Not War United States Institute of Peace
• Building a Successful Palestinian State Security Rand Corporation
• The Integration of Giants into the Global Economy American Enterprise Institute, Gary R. Saxonhouse,
• Organised crime situation report Council of Europe
• PIPA Iraq Poll Full Report - Questionnaire
• The U.S. Military: Under Strain and at Risk The National Security Advisory Group
• What’s So Special About China’s Exports? Harvard University, Dani Rodrik, January 2006
• The Blind Men and the Elephant: Global Imbalances University of California, Berkeley, Barry Eichengreen,
• World Investment Report: 2005 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development,
• Saudi Arabia and Iraq: Oil, Religion, and an Enduring Rivalry US Institute of Peace Joseph McMillan
• Minority Rights Group International publish report on preventing genocide
• The Social Cost of Foreign Exchange Reserves Harvard University, Dani Rodrik, Dec 2005
• Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction releases audit reports
• A Stability and Growth Facility Center for Global Development, By Kemal Derviş and Nancy Birdsall, January, 2006
• Communications Surveillance, Foreign and Domestic: Right Decision, Wrong Rules CSIS
• What Will Greenspan's Departure Mean? AEI Event Video
• ILO Global Employment Trends
• Making Intelligence Accountable: Legal Standards and Best Practice for Oversight of Intelligence Agencies by Hans Born and Ian Leigh, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)
• Stratfor 2006 Annual Forecast
• World Economic Forum -- Podcasts and Webcasts -- Programme -- Issues in Depth -- Weblog --
• Changing states: A progressive agenda for political reform in the Middle East Institute for Public Policy Research
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• 'Challenges of Peace Operations: Into the 21st Century'
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• Pakistan: The Resurgence of Baluch Natonalism Frederic Grare - Carnegie Endowment
• Are We Winning the War on Terrorism? A Report from Afghanistan Brookings Institution
• Inequality and Growth in Transition: Does China’s Rising Inequality Portend Russia’s Future? World Bank, Pradeep Mitra and Ruslan Yemtsov, January 2006
• The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Human Rights Report
• Iraqi Force Development: A Current Status Report July-December 2005 CSIS
• NATO Open Source Intelligence Handbook Reader -- Handbook
• US Department of Energy Country Analysis Briefs World Proved Crude Oil Reserves, Estimates -- World Proved Reserves of Oil and Natural Gas, Most Recent Estimates -- World Crude Oil Distillation Capacity, 2006 -- OPEC Oil Export Revenues
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• Enter Hamas: The Challenges of Political Integration International Crisis Group
• Disinflation, Fiscal Sustainability, and Labor Market Adjustment in Turkey - World Bank - Pierre-Richard Agénor, Henning Tarp Jensen, Mathew Verghis, and Erinc Yeldan
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• Iran Country Analysis Brief EIA
• The OSCE in Search of a Meaningful Agenda Netherlands Institute of International Relations
• Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics Brookings Institution
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• The Effects of Investing in Early Education on Economic Growth William T. Dickens, Isabel V. Sawhill, and Jeffrey Tebbs; Brookings Working Paper (January 2006)
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• A QDR's Crucial Question --- The Political Battles Ahead By Thomas Donnelly - AEI
• The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict by Linda Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz, January 2006
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• Princeton Project on National Security Working Papers
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• A New Direction for China’s Defense Industry Rand Corporation -
• Passive Sponsors of Terrorism Daniel L. Byman; Survival, vol. 47 no. 4 (Winter 2005)
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• Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves (COFER) IMF
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• How and Why Differentiate Developing Countries in the WTO? French Institute of International Relations
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• UNDP - China Human Development Report 2005
• Kyrgyzstan: A Faltering State International Crisis Group
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• The Impact of RMA on Conventional Deterrence: A Theoretical Analysis Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies
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• North East Asia's Undercurrents of Conflict International Crisis Group report examines tensions between China, Japan and South Korea
• Women, Islam, and the New Iraq By Isobel Coleman From Foreign Affairs, January/February 2006
• Moment Of Truth. Macedonia, The EU Budget, And The Destabilisation Of The Balkans ESI -
• Bridge over Troubled Waters: Putting Transatlantic Relations back on Track AEI Event Video - By Dan Fried
• The Military and Counter-Terrorism Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies
• The State of the World's Children 2006 UNICEF
• Azerbaijan's 2005 Legislative Elections: Outcome and Implications for U.S. Interests Congressional Research Service
• Air Power Against Terror - America’s Conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom RAND - Benjamin S. Lambeth
• Corruption in Greece The Council of Europe’s anti-corruption monitoring mechanism, the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
• Mehlis Report to UN in full (1.36MB)
• Syria and Political Change U.S. Institute of Peace
• Will China Yield Soft Power in Asia? AEI Event Video Will China Yield Soft Power in Asia?
• Bringing down barriers: Regional cooperation for human development and human security in Central Asia UNDP (2005)
• After the Kazakhstan Elections: U.S. Policy in the Caspian and Central Asia Heritage Foundation
• Iraqi Liberation? towards an Integrated Strategy Oxford Research Group
• Masque of Democracy: Iraqi Election System Still Disfavors Sunni Arabs, Favors Kurds Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Memo